Animation helps pilots training
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Animation helps pilots training
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Title: Motion picture tech pilots how to avoid the dangers of a "cold front"
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British bombers had known that the ships
were in the Channel, they would have been
helpless, for a “pea-soup” fog enveloped the
vessels as they raced for the open sea.
When Germany launched its invasion of
Poland, the Poles, fighting fiercely to resist
an already overpowering foe, cursed the
luck of the invaders in the excellent weather
that was aiding their advance. Actually, the
Germans had waited for months for the
weather to become their ally, and had not
dared turn a wheel before their experts had
guaranteed them two absolutely dry and
clear weeks in Which to move their tanks
and trucks.
Most Americans like to believe that the
Japs chose December 7 for their attack on
Pearl Harbor because it was a Sunday, when
normally the base would be enjoying “a day
off.” More likely the truth is that they
carefully selected a time when it would be
good sailing weather for their carriers, good
flying weather for their planes, and a clear
day for bombing an unsuspecting foe. In one
notable instance, however, Jap meteorolo-
gists badly misread the signs. In the Bis-
marck Sea engagement, the Jap armada was
advancing under the protective screen of
a thunderhead when suddenly the clouds
evaporated into a clear sky and left their
battleships and transports sitting like ducks
on a calm lake.
Because of the help they might afford the
enemy, official weather reports are out for
the duration. But there's no reason why you
can't learn to be your own weather man.
Here are a few simple “hows”:
If a summer sky has small cumulus
clouds which don’t tend to grow larger by
noon, you can bank on clear weather.
If you see a bank of cumulus clouds that
is growing and building up to a summit, look
for rain, hail, and lightning.
If there is a cloud layer over the horizon,
and it begins to form turretlike shapes at its
top, you are in for squalls.
If you see high bands of clouds extending
east and west and moving fast, it means that
there is a cold snap on the way.
If clouds clot into thick masses and blot
out the sun, duck for cover.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-11
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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94-95
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 143, n. 5, 1943
